Sources for the Crystal icon set are everywhere. They are at many places in KDE's CVS, so many, it's hard to download them. Artists more skillful with sketchbooks than CVS, will be gladly surprised that Frans Englich wrote a script which collects them all, and that Philip Scott provided a high speed server for the resulting zip.

Crystal sources may be at your home. Of course, visionary Everaldo and over productive Torsten made most icons, still, other artists made contributions too. For whatever reason, some of these sources are missing. If you ever made a Crystal SVG icon, and see the source is not in this archive, please send the vector source to: kde-artists@kde.org. And of course, Everaldo too is interested in your Crystal icons: "Everaldo" <everaldo@everaldo.com>

Crystal sources are certainly to be found at the SUSE server: SVG sources not fully ready to commit to CVS, and even Everaldo's Illustrator files! See the Icon Guide for more information about this.

The sources are especially useful for artists, developers and for experimentation. Many icons, especially the smaller ones are hand-fixed after they are exported to pixels. Running the sources directly on your system will probably give poorer results than using the PNG version of the Crystal SVG set released by Everaldo himself.

Crystal sources may pop up in your head. Crystal SVG is one of the most popular icon set around. Join this project, help to make it more complete, and know your work installed on computers all over the world! A good starting point is the Icon Guide.

Comments

It's nice to have all the crystal icons in one place. I searched for hours trying to find the SVG version in February. Now I finally have it =) Though, I think I will stick with the PNGs, tehy don';t render all that great when their tiny.

Both where installed, but the embedding was set to KHTML in stead of ksvg (default settings on Debian unstable here). But yes it renders now, but slower then in Sodipodi and there seem to be less colours then in Sodipodi. Sorry for going off-topic here.

As far as I'm concerned, KDE (I'm still running 3.1.5 at office and 3.2 at home) doesn't yet know that USB storage devices are not the same as HDDs. Although it could be probably introduced without much hassle -- like, count /dev/hd* as HDDs and /dev/sd* as USB storage devices, and show the appropriate icons -- this is not a good idea to distinguish them like that.

So basically there's no USB storage device icon in KDE at all. Well, I didn't like that, because I use CompactFlash/SD/MMC cards to carry data around a lot, so I have created an icon for an external card reader and fitted it onto my desktop. Tried to keep them consistent with general Crystal look, too. You can see both mounted and unmounted icons for CompactFlash at http://www.livejournal.com/community/ru_icons/113102.html

The question is whether these icons can be included into the Crystal package or not. I didn't even bother to put them onto kde-look.org...

Wow .. these icons look really really cool. Please *do* post them at kde-look.org and I'm going to use them now I have also some CF-cards which I mount. I can assure them that some people will definitely wanna use them (like me)

I really love KDE, especially 3.2 release. But looking always to competition I must determine, that Gnome 2.6 is really a bit faster (with an awful spastic filemanager "feature") than KDE 3.2. Human noticable faster, not only benchmark numbers. Not to much, but a little bit.

Then, I installed IceWM+ROX2 combo and this really rox. I'm become a little bit anxiety if I click on an icon in Rox2 because it open's "too fast". It feels, a open window jump out of my monitor to me (sorry, can't describe it better in my poor english)
Doesn't ever know how fast my PC can be (2.4ghz/1gb-ram/udma5)

So now my question: is it good for KDE if I use everywhere (where I can) SVG-Icons to be faster or should I stay with PNG's (and I really think it look's nice for me)??